Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics

CV | christopher.beeley@yale.edu Phone:(203) 432-5324
Denomination: Episcopal

Professor Beeley teaches early Christian theology and history and modern Anglican tradition. He is the author of The Unity of Christ: Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition (Yale University Press, 2012), Pastoral Leadership: Wisdom from the Early Church (Eerdmans, 2012), Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God (Oxford University Press, 2008), winner of a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and numerous articles and reviews. Professor Beeley is the editor of the Patristic Monograph Series and a director of the North American Patristics Society, a previous director of the American Society of Church History, and a steering committee chair of the Society of Biblical Literature. An Episcopal priest, he has served parishes in Texas, Indiana, Virginia, and Connecticut, and he contributes to Berkeley Divinity School’s Anglican formation program. Professor Beeley is a fellow of Saybrook College.

Education

B.A. Washington and Lee University
Diploma in Anglican Studies, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
M.Div. Yale University Divinity School
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame

Books

Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God (Oxford University Press)